NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes Ready to Begin Mo-99 Production

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, a nuclear medicine company based out of Madison, Wis., announced that it has received approval to begin producing the radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, a nuclear medicine company based out of Madison, Wis., announced that it has received approval to begin producing the radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

The company will now work on establishing a weekly production schedule at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) facility in Columbia, Mo.

Mo-99 is the precursor of technetium-99m (Tc-99m), the radioisotope commonly used for medical diagnostic imaging. Interest in the domestic production of Mo-99 has increased in recent years, especially after the news that Canada’s National Research Universal reactor—where 40 percent of the world’s Mo-99 is produced—is scheduled to close in March 2018.

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